not be prevailed on to raise any Money for the Kings use
unless upon such Conditions as it was evident would not be
granted I thought it my Duty to advise the Secretary of State
how Matters were circumstanced & to transmit a particular
Account of what had passed between the two Houses of
Assembly in hopes that some measures would have been taken
before this time to put an End to the Dispute. His Majesty's
Ministers however having not as yet interfered so far & the
Secretary of State having in his last Letters only blamed both
Houses for their Failure last year neither of them think their
own Conduct is thereby censured & therefore the Lower
House by way of justifying their former Proceedings take just
the same Steps that they did last year & the Gentlemen of the
Upper continue still to reject a Bill which in their opinion is
calculated to introduce strange Innovations & which they
think it inconsistent with good Policy & common Justice to
give their Assent to. This being the Case I can do no more
than make the same Representation to the Secretary of State
that I did last Summer & hope that His Majesty's Service will
not suffer or be retarded for want of the Supplies or Troops
which it was the Duty of His Majesty's Subjects in this Prov-
ince to furnish. Your Excellency will I hope do me the Jus-
tice to think that it would have afforded me the greatest
Pleasure to have had it in my Power to give a very different
Answer to Your two Letters from what I have now wrote &
that no Endeavours of mine have been wanting to induce our
People to act a better part, & you will also I persuade myself
believe that with the most ardent wishes for Your Success in
the ensuing Campaign & with the utmost Respect I am &c
[Sharpe to Stanwix.]
18th April 1759 —
Dr Sr
Capt Morris of His Majesty's Regiment who has been here
some time on the Recruiting Service being about to sett off
for Phila I embrace the Opportunity to inform you that as soon
as I received your Letter of the 2d Inst & the others that you
were so kind as to forward to me I sent 'em to our Lower
House of Assembly together with a Message whereof I take
the Liberty to inclose you a Copy which I was in hopes
would have inclined them to persue different measures from
those which they had lately adhered to & to have offered a
different Bill to the Upper House at this time from the one
which that House had already refused four times & to which
they were determined never to assent, but I am sorry to inform
you that they have again shewn the same Disposition that
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